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Terminator, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters Collide in Animated Short Film

Picture Randal from Kevin Smith’s Clerks dropping acid and you’ll get the gist of Synchronize. The short film (above) trips out on hallucinogenic versions of Indiana Jones, the Terminator and other classic movie characters as dreamed up by a video store clerk who dozes off on the job.

Dutch film student Elise The crafted the distorted stream-of-consciousness scenario, which plops Harrison Ford in the same vision as Ghostbusters — each competing for attention in a 1980s dreamscape.

The film is one of about 50 shorts featured in the Disposable Film Festival. The festival, which was started in 2007 to promote new forms of filmmaking, specializes in DIY movies shot on camera phones and other non-professional devices.

“Synchronize is made for everybody who witnessed and loved the ’80s and its awesome movies,” reads the film’s online description. “But [it’s] also a reminder to those who look down upon Hollywood that even their imagination is most likely to be shaped by the ‘American’ cliches of yesteryears.”

The Disposable Film Festival, which kicks off in San Francisco before heading off to other cities, starts Thursday in the city and runs through March 25.